Collinsville, Texas

COLLINSVILLE, TEXAS. Collinsville is on U.S. Highway 377 eighteen miles southwest of Sherman in southwestern Grayson County. The first Anglo-Americans to settle in the area arrived in the late 1850s. Originally the community was called Springville, and land for the townsite donated by Joshua Miller. A post office operated there in 1857–58. In the late 1860s another town, Toadsuck, was established in the area. Following the Civil War L. M. Collins and her two sons arrived from Ann Arbor, Michigan, and established what many believe to be the first free school in the North Texas area. In 1872 a post office opened. Nine years later the Texas and Pacific Railway arrived. The railroad established the community as a shipping and retail point for area farmers. Sometime early in the 1890s residents voted to incorporate and rename their town in honor of Collins. By 1900 Collinsville had a population of over 600. That figure fluctuated little over the next five decades. The town had Methodist, Baptist, Christian, and Cumberland Presbyterian churches and fifty businesses. Beginning in the mid-1970s a ten-year growth in population occurred. In 1989 Collinsville had an estimated 911 residents and sixteen businesses. In 1990 the population was 1,033, and in 2000 it grew to 1,235.  The population was 1,624 at the 2010 census.

Collinsville is a quiet, beautiful community.  It is a mix of resident that have lived here their whole lives and many generations before them and new comers seeking a slower pace than the big cities.  This is not to say that Collinsville is not growing.  They have a thriving main street area with several new business that have come in recently.  An active Chamber of Commerce, Keep Collinsville Beautiful organization, IDC (Industrial Development Corporation) and EDC (Economic Development Corporation) groups, public library and Collinsville ISD.

Collinsville is located right in the heart of horse country in North Texas.  Beautiful ranches and plenty of wide open spaces to build your dream horse property.  Whether you are into horses or just looking for a quiet hometown feeling, check out the properties available by click here.

Collinsville ISD has two campus which is home to the Fighting Pirates.  The elementary PK- 6th and the high school.  There is a saying in Collinsville "Once a Pirate always a Pirate".  The classes are small where the kids receive one on one attention from their teachers and everyone knows everyone.  

If Collinsville sounds like a place you would like to call home, please contact me today.  I would love to show you around my home town and help you become a Pirate too!!